![Windows in Swartz Hall](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_21_9__1920x825/public/2025-06/Frederick-Banner-Window-Swartz.jpg?itok=F7LPoxl8) # HDS Faculty to Showcase Expertise at 2025 AAR/SBL Annual Meeting Faculty presentations, panels, and publications underscore Harvard Divinity School's leadership in the study of religion. November 17, 2025 Harvard Divinity School (HDS) will be well represented at the upcoming 2025 American Academy of Religion (AAR) and Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) Annual Gathering in Boston. From November 22-25, 2025, HDS faculty will share their scholarship across a wide range of academic disciplines through paper presentations, book panels, sessions dedicated to newly published works, and celebrations of their contributions to their respective fields. The list below contains information\* for HDS Faculty of Divinity participating in an AAR/SBL session. Complete listings of all SBL, AAR, and other session information—including participant names, paper titles, and abstracts—are available in the online program books found on the [AAR website](https://papers.aarweb.org/program-book/30613) and on the [SBL website](https://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/annual-meeting/). \**Please note: Session details are subject to change. Please consult the AAR/SBL websites and/or app for up-to-date information.* ### Davíd Carrasco [Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, with a joint appointment with the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences](https://www.hds.harvard.edu/people/david-carrasco) **Session Information:** - Panelist: “Arts of Interpretation" - Friday, November 21, 1 pm to 4 pm, Tozzer Room 203 (21 Divinity Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138) - Panel Respondent: “Religions in the Latina/o Americas Unit” - Saturday, November 22, 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm, Fairfax A Sheraton ![David Carrasco headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2025-11/DavidCarrasco2019.jpg?h=7387617e&itok=WARmvdJq) ### Francis X. Clooney, S.J. [Parkman Professor of Divinity; Professor of Comparative Theology](https://www.hds.harvard.edu/people/francis-x-clooney) **Session Information:** - Recipient and Keynote Speaker: “Annual DANAM Book Award and Keynote Address” - Friday, November 21, 5:30 pm to 7 pm, Maverick A Hilton Back Bay - Roundtable Presider: “God at Play: Lila in Hindu and Christian Traditions edited by Daniel Soars” - Saturday, November 22, 9 am to 10:30 am, Ballroom C Hynes Convention Center - Panelist: “Poetics of Comparison. A Roundtable in Honor of Francis Clooney” - Monday, November 24, 9 am to 11 am, Independence East Sheraton ![Francis X. Clooney, S.J.](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2025-11/10062025-FrancisClooney-1871.jpg?h=fea3d453&itok=_Ltl9c65) ### Ahmad Greene-Hayes [Associate Professor of African American Religious Studies](https://www.hds.harvard.edu/people/ahmad-greene-hayes) **Session Information:** - Book Panel Respondent: “Author-Meets-Respondents Session for Ahmad Greene-Hayes, *Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow* *New Orleans* (University of Chicago Press, 2025)" - Sunday, November 23, 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm, Hynes Convention Center 206 ![Ahmad Greene-Hayes](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2025-11/10062025-AhmadGreenHayes-1240.jpg?h=8811f7d9&itok=BbFQrykV) ### Janet Gyatso [Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies](https://www.hds.harvard.edu/people/janet-gyatso) **Session Information:** - Panelist: “Celebrating the 90th Birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama” - Sunday, November 23, 3 pm to 4:30 pm, Back Bay B Sheraton - Paper: “Spotting Dendrel as a Way of Freedom”; Panel Presider: “Tibetan Interdependence, or Dendrel, as a Way of Freedom” - Monday, November 24, 3 pm to 4:30 pm, Hynes Convention Center 207 ![Janet Gyatso](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/hds2/files/gyatso-links-600x600.jpg?itok=oc__QQ0N) ### Amy Hollywood [Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies](https://www.hds.harvard.edu/people/amy-hollywood) **Session Information** - Panelist: Love, Risk, and an Uncertain Future: Fannie Bialek’s *Love in Time: An Ethical Inquiry* - Sunday, November 23, 3 pm to 4:30 pm, Hynes Convention Center 105 - Book Panelist: “Mysticism, Aesthetics, and Philosophy: Debating Simon Critchley’s *Mysticism* (2024)” - Monday, November 24, 3 pm to 4:30 pm, Tufts-Marriott Copley Place ![Amy Hollywood](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2025-11/amy-hollywood.jpg?itok=DQSFjv1q) ### Nikki Hoskins [Assistant Professor of Religion and Ecology](https://www.hds.harvard.edu/people/nikki-hoskins) **Session Information** - Paper: “The Fungibility of Black Ecologies: Energy and Extraction” - Saturday, November 22, 3 pm to 4:30 pm, Dalton-Sheraton - Panelist: “Black Religion, Death, and the Afterlives of Memory” - Monday, November 24, 3 pm to 4:30 pm, Hynes Convention Center 312 ![Nikki Hoskins headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2025-03/Nikki%20Hoskins_Headshot_2025.jpeg?h=f7fa55d7&itok=ahES-70S) ### Tracey Hucks [Victor S. Thomas Professor of Africana Religious Studies; Suzanne Young Murray Professor (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study)](https://www.hds.harvard.edu/people/tracey-hucks) **Session Information** - Book Panelist: “Author-Meets-Critics: *Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation* (New York University Press, 2022)” - Sunday, November 23, 9 am to 11 am, Boylston Marriott Copley Place ![Tracey Hucks](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2025-11/TraceyHucks.jpg?h=935f0928&itok=bCZ_uZl6) ### Terrence L. Johnson [Charles G. Adams Professor of African American Religious Studies; Professor of African and African American Studies (FAS); Director of Religion and Public Life](https://www.hds.harvard.edu/people/terrence-l-johnson) **Session Information:** - Panelist: “Freedom and Flourishing in Fraught Times” - Sunday, November 23, 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm, Hynes Convention Center Ballroom A ![Terrence Johnson](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/hds2/files/terrence_johnson_2023_600_0.jpg?itok=LKMRHmrB) ### David C. Lamberth [Professor of Philosophy and Theology](https://www.hds.harvard.edu/people/david-c-lamberth) **Session Information:** - Panelist: “Facing Threats to Democracy: Lessons from Pragmatism” - Saturday, November 22, 3 pm to 4:30 pm, Hynes Convention Center 206 ![David Lamberth in glasses and a suit looking at the camera](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/hds2/files/05242023-davidlamberth-600x900_0.jpg?h=d2f5fef1&itok=kFEbTTxk) ### Jon D. Levenson [Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies](https://www.hds.harvard.edu/people/jon-d-levenson) **Session Information:** - Book Panel Respondent: “Book Review Panel: Jon D. Levenson*, Israel’s Day of Light and Joy: The Origin, Development, and Enduring Meaning of the Jewish Sabbath* (Eisenbrauns 2024)” - Sunday, November 23, 9 am to 11:30 am, Hynes Convention Center 301 - Book Panelist: “*In God’s Presence*: *A Jewish Theology for Jews and Christians*” - Sunday, November 23, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm, Essex South, Westin Copley Place ![Jon Levenson](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2025-11/JonLevenson2021.jpg?itok=Am2nP7pw) ### Jacob K. Olupona [Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies; Professor of African Religious Traditions; Chair, African and African American Studies (FAS)](https://www.hds.harvard.edu/people/jacob-k-olupona) **Session Information:** - Roundtable Panelist: “Augustine the African: A Roundtable Discussion” - Sunday, November 23, 5 pm to 6:30 pm, Hynes Convention Center 209 - Panel Respondent: “Indigenous Hermeneutics in the Work of Prof. Jacob K. Olupona and Beyond” - Monday, November 24, 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm, Republic A-Sheraton ![Jacob Olupona speaking before class](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2025-11/olupona-qa-2024-news.jpg?itok=yQ8jT1ag) ### Kimberley C. Patton [Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion](https://www.hds.harvard.edu/people/kimberley-c-patton) **Session Information:** - Panel Respondent: “The Depths of Divine Reflexivity: Kimberley C. Patton’s Contributions to the Study of Comparative Religion” - Monday, November 24, 9 am to 11 am, Hynes Convention Center 206 ![Kimberley Patton](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2025-11/Patton-Commencement2016-0163.jpg?h=e60a6109&itok=GOlhuXK0) ### Michelle C. Sanchez [Professor of Theology](https://www.hds.harvard.edu/people/michelle-c-sanchez) **Session Information:** - Panel Respondent: “Political Freedom from a Reformed Perspective” - Saturday, November 22, 9 am to 11 am, Liberty C-Sheraton - Panelist: “Normative and Descriptive Modes of Inquiry: Can they Relate?” - Saturday, November 22, 5 pm to 6:30 pm, Back Bay B-Sheraton ![Michelle Sanchez](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2025-11/10062025-MichelleSanchez_1575_1.jpg?h=7c700551&itok=L3HVfVMv) ### Charles M. Stang [Professor of Early Christian Thought; Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions](https://www.hds.harvard.edu/people/charles-m-stang) **Session Information:** - Panel Presider: “Experiments with Form and Genre” - Monday, November 24, 4 pm to 6:30 pm, Independence West-Sheraton ![Charles Stang](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2025-06/ProfessorStang2_web.jpg?h=f0882af5&itok=DtNkLsG1) ### Raúl Zegarra [Assistant Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies](https://www.hds.harvard.edu/people/raul-zegarra) **Session Information:** - Book Panelist: “Christopher D. Tirres, *Liberating Spiritualities: Reimagining Faith in the Américas* (Fordham University Press, 2025)” - Saturday, November 22, 5 pm to 6:30 pm, Vermont-Marriott Copley Place ![Raúl Zegarra](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2025-11/10062025-RaulZegarra-1664.jpg?h=3d3bec45&itok=fwpTygI7) See also:- [ Faculty and Research ](/discover-stories-about/faculty-and-research) - [ Faculty Book ](/topic-tags/faculty-book)